The Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico was
supposed to be a grand experiment in collaborative management, but
the current board’s push to expand grazing and curtail public
input has led to clashes with local environmentalists

Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s
Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and
Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and
histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque

Silvery minnows had a good run this year on New
Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande, but an increase in the number of
dead fish has prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to raise
the "incidental take" numbers allowed for the species

Army Corps of Engineers will have to release water from
Columbia and Snake river dams to help salmon; Montana mining ban is
not a property "taking"; kinks in plan to drill for natural gas at
Colorado nuclear site.

Maria Chabot – Georgia O’Keeffe:
Correspondence 1941-1949 tempts with its glimpse into the
life of a famous painter but finally fascinates with its portrait
of Chabot and her life in Abiquiu, N.M., during World War
II